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Mystic Mountains, gel plate monotype by Daniel Arendzen, showing the printed image only: a traditional Malaysian house with an ochre roof on stilts, two green coconut palms and layered blueish purple limestone hills above orange bare land
Mystic Mountains, gel plate monotype by Daniel Arendzen, shown in full including the paper and signage at the bottom. The impression is about a traditional Malaysian house with an ochre roof on stilts, two coconut trees and layered blueish purple limestone hills on bare land.
Mystic Mountains, gel plate monotype by Daniel Arendzen, framed and standing on a carved wooden cabinet under a barred window, with a mug for scale. The room is a Blender render of the interior of the same traditional Malaysian house shown in the print.
Mystic Mountains, gel plate monotype by Daniel Arendzen, framed on a wooden wall under a spotlight, seen from the side, with binoculars, a watch and a lighter on a table below. The room is a Blender render of the interior of the same traditional Malaysian house shown in the print.
Mystic Mountains, gel plate monotype by Daniel Arendzen, shown as a close-up: the traditional Malaysian house with its ochre roof on stilts, a green coconut palm, and layered blueish purple and dark blue limestone hills behind, with orange bare land below. It shows the brayer and brush strokes on the textured paper
  1. Mystic Mountains, gel plate monotype by Daniel Arendzen, showing the printed image only: a traditional Malaysian house with an ochre roof on stilts, two green coconut palms and layered blueish purple limestone hills above orange bare land
  2. Mystic Mountains, gel plate monotype by Daniel Arendzen, shown in full including the paper and signage at the bottom. The impression is about a traditional Malaysian house with an ochre roof on stilts, two coconut trees and layered blueish purple limestone hills on bare land.
  3. Mystic Mountains, gel plate monotype by Daniel Arendzen, framed and standing on a carved wooden cabinet under a barred window, with a mug for scale. The room is a Blender render of the interior of the same traditional Malaysian house shown in the print.
  4. Mystic Mountains, gel plate monotype by Daniel Arendzen, framed on a wooden wall under a spotlight, seen from the side, with binoculars, a watch and a lighter on a table below. The room is a Blender render of the interior of the same traditional Malaysian house shown in the print.
  5. Mystic Mountains, gel plate monotype by Daniel Arendzen, shown as a close-up: the traditional Malaysian house with its ochre roof on stilts, a green coconut palm, and layered blueish purple and dark blue limestone hills behind, with orange bare land below. It shows the brayer and brush strokes on the textured paper

Mystic Mountains

RM555.00

Original (1/1) Monotype print by Daniel Arendzen, Mystic Mountains (2026)

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Impression Description

This impression brings me back to the limestone hills near Ipoh, one of the cities in Northern Malaysia. Depending on the time of the day, the fog, haze, clouds and the position of the sun, the hills can appear in many different colours with the larger hills in the distance. The house is more prominent and the brush strokes are visible. It resembles something old, sturdy but also fragile at the same time. As there are no lights on, nobody is home. The house just stands there with the tree being alive on barren land. While the house has a place to ground, there is also something mysterious about it, of which even I don’t know what it is.

Details:

Type of art:
Unique (1/1) original hand-pulled layered monotype print

Medium:
Acrylic paint on paper printed, pressed and hand-pulled from a gel plate.

Sizes:
– Paper size A3, 29.7 × 42 cm (11.7 × 16.5 in).
– Art size 22.9 × 30.5 cm (9 × 12 in).

Paper: 100% cotton, acid-free, cold pressed, 300gsm, sourced from the EU. Cold-pressed paper is textured which gives the print a rougher and unique feel.

Authenticity: All art comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. Art is signed, titled and dated below the artwork with pencil.

Series: This print is a part of the Landscape series. Parts of Malaysia have breathtaking limestone hills where these houses once stood. I am interested in creating landscapes to give the traditional houses a place to stand, a place to ground, a place you can go to. Here the house stands in its full right.

What is a monotype print?

A monotype is a type of print whereby the printmaker starts with a clean plate the paper is pressed on after the image is created, and ends with a clean plate after the paper is pulled from it. It is, therefore, impossible to create the same image twice as opposed to monoprints. With a monoprint, the plate the paper is pressed on has the image permanently created in it using different techniques. Then it is possible to reproduce identical prints in smaller limited editions (or just only one of course).

All the impressions I make are monotypes. The gel plate is clean so I will have to start anew to create the next impression. This ensures you always will have a unique print that nobody else has.

The artist & printmaker

Daniel Arendzen in a hat and glasses holding a yellow gel plate monotype of a traditional Malaysian house, standing inside a Blender render of the same house, with a carved wooden window behind him.
Daniel is standing in the digital version of the house he is holding in his hands.

Daniel Arendzen is the artist and printmaker who makes original works of art using traditional printmaking techniques with a modern twist in which he first recreates traditional houses digitally before transforming them into physical pieces. His primary objective is to (re)connect people with home through traditional architecture from all around the world. His current series are the Malaysian traditional houses.

 

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